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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
The Victory Loan Flyers: Watch for the Airplane Special
K. Watkins · Victory Liberty Loan, United States Treasury, 1919
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A colour lithograph K. Watkins drew for the Victory Loan of 1919, printed by the Sackett & Wilhelms Corporation of New York, 76 by 51 cm, sheet No. 20.C.
Why it matters
The Victory Liberty Loan of spring 1919 paid the bills the war left after the Armistice, and this sheet announced its flyers, an airplane special the reader was told to watch for.
What to notice
Airplanes flying over a speeding train, the loan's two fastest messengers in one picture.
A bond drive, arriving by air.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- K. Watkins
- Printer / house
- Sackett & Wilhelms Corporation, New York
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Victory Liberty Loan, United States Treasury, 1919
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2003652825 · POS - US .W387, no. 1 (C size) [P&P]
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02 on the Commons mirror of the same LoC scan: Public domain (PD-1923, PD-Layout, PD-US-expired).
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